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Faced with a declining membership base, the group voted to loosen the eligibility requirements to join the fraternity. It then inducted 350 new members...
...accounts, he whipped a flabby Gore operation into something like fighting trim by cutting costs, establishing a chain of command and getting Gore to loosen his iron grip on campaign minutiae. Coelho made the Gore campaign what it is today - shape-shifting, unsure of how best to proceed, but very much within striking distance of George W. Bush...
Over tea at the horseshoe-shaped table in the party's conference room, Mirdamadi sketches out the reform dream for Iran. One of the first goals, he explains, will be to loosen press restrictions, thus enabling the reform newspapers and magazines that were first muzzled in April to begin publishing again. This is more than just a battle for civil rights: reopening the dissident press will help keep the reform movement--and its leaders--alive. The Participation Front is also hoping to open Iran's opaque judicial system with a bill that will give conservative judges less leeway to lock...
...unavailability of steady practice space put Harvard at a great disadvantage in comparison with the top teams in both the EISA and the nation. With little time actually spent on the slopes, Crimson skiers often had to wait until competition to loosen up on the skis...
...overtures: The Post story suggests the plan does not quite live up to a proposal Microsoft offered informally prior to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's initial ruling against the company. If that opinion is widely held, Microsoft could suffer; any public perception that Microsoft is trying to loosen the noose around its neck will likely be met with widespread ire among consumers - and, perhaps more important, within Judge Penfield Jackson's chambers...